On 13 September 2011 15:18, Chris Keating <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com">chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Charity Christmas cards and calendars are ordered in about March for sale in August onwards, which is regarded as &quot;in time for Christmas&quot;. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, this Xmas is out. But I throw it out there now in the hope we might remember for next year..</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div></div><div>We also don&#39;t have the typical charity Christmas shopping demographic - our donor demographic wants everything available online and instantly and probably doesn&#39;t start thinking about Christmas until December.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The brilliant thing about calendars is that it doesn&#39;t matter - we won&#39;t be targeting our donor demographic. We will just be selling calendars; a nice calendar will sell anywhere, and if it is for a charitable cause, all the better!</div>
<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve sold calendars for a few of the businesses/NFP&#39;s I consult for and they are a consistently solid fundraising route.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div></div>